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Please give it a try and let me know quickly if you find any problems!
If all is well tomorrow morning, I plan to put out a release to the
Nmap-hackers. I think this version is better for most people than
4.20 due to the substantial OS detection improvements, and the many
bugfixes. Not to mention the cool experimental features such as NSE
and traceroute.

Here are the changes since ALPHA3:

o Performed another big OS detection run. The DB has grown almost 10%
to 417 fingerprints. All submissions up to February 6 have been
processed. Please keep them coming!

o Fixed XML output so that the opening <os> tag is printed again. The
line which prints this was somehow removed when NSE was integrated.
Thanks to Joshua Abraham for reporting the problem.

I have run several tests with the -sC switch and have yet to see anything bogus like a seg fault or the like. I did have one instance where the scan deadlocked but no log traces as to why were left behind. All attempts to recreate it with debug logging turned on yielded nothing because it simply never happened again.

--TH13

Our scars have the power to remind us that our past was real. -- Hannibal Lecter.
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful. -- John Wooden